Cyber Security News


  • U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Arrested and Charged with Conspiracy to Obtain and Disclose National Defense Information

    March 7, 2024

    Korbein Schultz, a U.S. Army soldier and intelligence analyst, was arrested today at Fort Campbell following an indictment by a federal grand jury charging him with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, exporting technical data related to defense articles without a license, conspiracy to export defense articles without a license, and bribery of ...

  • Jersey data breach leaks personal information

    March 7, 2024

    A data breach at Jersey’s Financial Services Commission has allowed access to non-public names and addresses. The organisation confirmed a “vulnerability” was detected in its Registry system on 23 January. It said the leak did not link any individuals to registered entities or roles held and that it had separately written to those whose names and addresses ...

  • Italy privacy watchdog fines Unicredit $3.1 million for data breach

    March 7, 2024

    Italy’s data protection authority has fined UniCredit, the country’s second-largest bank, 2.8 million euros ($3.1 million) for a data breach case in 2018 affecting thousands of customers and former customers, it said on Thursday. The bank responded that it would appeal the decision to court, adding that no bank data had been compromised and the incident ...

  • Insurance giant Fidelity hit by data breach

    March 6, 2024

    Sensitive information belonging to tens of thousands of Fidelity Investments Life Insurance customers was stolen, reportedly thanks to a supply chain attack that happened in 2023. The insurance giant has filed a data breach notification with the Maine attorney general’s office in which it stated that 28,268 of its customers had their private data leaked after ...

  • Wyze reports a new data breach

    March 6, 2024

    Security cameras have become very popular for people to plug into their home network, hoping this with deter burglars (or should a robbery happen, that some footage of the event will be captured). Yet how secure is the digital image data? Recently, Wyze users encountered a camera breach with the cybersecurity incident impacting some 13,000 users. ...

  • Capita shares sink as outsourcing giant swings to £107m loss, takes £25m hit from cyber attack

    March 6, 2024

    Capita has incurred £25.3m in costs tied to a cyber attack last March as the outsourcing giant swung to an annual loss and ramped up its cost-cutting programme. Shares fell 16 per cent on Wednesday morning. The group, which runs key local government, military and NHS services, posted a pretax loss of £106.6m for 2023, compared ...

  • Ontario: City of Hamilton confirms ransomware is behind cyber attack

    March 5, 2024

    Ransomware is behind the cyber attack on the city of Hamilton, Ont., the municipality’s city manager says. Marnie Cluckie told reporters Monday afternoon that the attack, which was detected the evening of Sunday, Feb. 25, was the result of ransomware. She wouldn’t say what strain of the malware the city has been hit with, how long ...

  • Hacker forum post claims UnitedHealth paid $22 mln ransom in bid to recover data

    March 5, 2024

    A post on a hacker forum popular with cybercriminals has claimed UnitedHealth Group opens new tab paid $22 million in a bid to recover access to data and systems encrypted by the “Blackcat” ransomware gang, according to two researchers. Neither UnitedHealth nor the hackers involved have commented on the alleged ransom payment, but a cryptocurrency tracing ...

  • Germany: Use of non-secure line behind Taurus talk leak to Russia

    March 5, 2024

    The Ministry of Defence blamed an unnamed individual’s improper use of a “non-secure data line” for the recent leak of a German army conversation about the Taurus weapon system to Russia. The mistake was made by the participant who took part in the conversation from Singapore and had dialled in via a “non-secure data line” such ...

  • Network tunneling with… QEMU?

    March 5, 2024

    While investigating an incident at a large company a few months ago, kaspersky researchers detected uncommon malicious activity inside one of the systems. They ran an analysis on the artifacts, only to find that the adversary had deployed and launched the following: The Angry IP Scanner network scanning utility The mimikatz password, hash, and Kerberos ticket extractor, and ...